Ibn Taymiyya verfolgte das Projekt, den Widerstreit von Vernunft und Offenbarung, der das islamische Denken seiner Zeit - und freilich weit darüber hinaus - zutiefst prägte, einer harmonischen Auflösung zuzuführen.
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016A bold call for a Canadian foreign policy that advances the basic freedoms that enable peace, stability, development, and security.
In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring of cells observed by a central watchtower, as a labor-saving device for those in authority.
In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree.
With the Obama Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holders direction, Americans are learning what really happens when law-enforcement power is co-opted by politics.
Women’s Suffrage In Wales allows its readers to take a glimpse at the lives of the many ordinary Welsh women who contributed in some way to the suffrage movement.
Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes.
Nancy Astor, the first female MP to take her seat in Parliament; Dr Mabel Ramsay, instrumental in the suffrage campaign in the south-west; Dame Agnes Weston, the first woman to be buried with full naval honors after her pioneering work with the welfare of sailors – the maritime city of Plymouth certainly has its fair share of influential women.
Women’s Suffrage In Wales allows its readers to take a glimpse at the lives of the many ordinary Welsh women who contributed in some way to the suffrage movement.
'Ground-breaking' - Daily Mail'In explaining the rise to power of Kim Yo Jong, Lee displays his deep knowledge and understanding of North Korea's extreme, ruthless and self-obsessed dynastic autocracy, the creators and rulers of a de-facto nuclear weapon state.
The Second World War spawned a plethora of crack special forces units (Long Range Desert Group, SAS, SBS, Phantom and Commandos) but 30 Assault Unit remains, even today, far more secretive and exclusive than the others.
NOSALTRES ist eine Sammlung von Reflexionen, Beschreibungen, Analysen und Bildern einer Gruppe von 52 Frauen und Männern unterschiedlicher Herkunftsländer, Religion und Profession in Journalismus, Kunst, Philosophie und Wissenschaft, die sich gedanklich mit der Zukunft unserer Erde befassen.
Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin.
Das vorliegende Buch wurde aus der Erkenntnis heraus geschrieben, dass es in Deutschland viele demokratieverdrossene Menschen gibt, die zu Nicht- oder Protestwählern geworden sind.
The Russian Federation is undoubtedly one of the major actors and powers in international organizations, especially the United Nations and the Security Council, and is one of the growing economic powers of the world which has been on the trajectory of rapid development with a new strategy that focuses on educating the younger generation.
"Necesitamos más mujeres escribiendo, produciendo análisis y protagonizando la era de la cuarta revolución industrial, especialmente si lo hacen desde una perspectiva de ética y de derechos humanos.
A Palestinian prisoner s memoir of thirty years captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a wall that somehow chose me as the witness of what it said and didNasser Abu Srour grew up in a refugee camp in the West Bank, on the outskirts of Bethlehem.
Inspired by five true stories of communities who were tired of corporate political power entitlements running roughshod over their townships, Be the Change offers solutions for how individuals can stand up and take back their local governments.
La avanzada evangélica en las arenas partidarias latinoamericanas es uno de los acontecimientos más estudiados en el campo de la sociología de la religión y un evento que suscita hondas polémicas en el espacio amplio de la sociedad civil.
